(Originally published by Nattie on May 23, 2006)
does it ever just blow your mind that God has a plan for you and for your life. a plan that is bigger than you ever imagined. i have this really bad habit of limiting God, but something i’ve learned over the past year and a half or so is that God is big and if you don’t place him in a box, well, he will blow your socks off.

There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears. ~ Philippians 1:6 The Message

Here’s to having our socks blown off by God. Glory!Copyright Natalie Rose York

(Originally published by Nattie on May 18, 2006)
I call this picture…
Living an abundant life
I have this thing…I don’t know how to do things by half measure. Like my hair. That hat while i look tres cute in it covers a hair that is orange. Orange, I tell you. First I had pink hair in honor of Dana’s cancerversary. Then I needed to go back to a “normal” hair color. Do I do it the normal way? No! Before the orange hair I had fire engine red hair only where the hair had been pink. You could see me across a crowded gym. I called it my technicolor nightmare hair.no

(Originally published by Nattie on May 14, 2006
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Hello, God.
It’s me Natalie.
Do you remember me?
Of course, you do.
The real question is…do I remember you?
Sometimes I wonder.
My faith seems so elusive
and I feel like I am running through a glass menagerie.
I feel distracted like a babe looking at all the pretties.
I need blinders.
I need to focus on the author and perfecter of my faith.
I need to sit at the feet of my Abba, Father.
But I don’t.
So when it rains I can’t help but think I am being bathed
in your tears
and I hear a gentle admonition…
a whisper on the wind,
“Return to the love of your youth and tarry with me.”
Your Prodigal Daughter,
Natalie
5/6/2006

When he came back to his disciples, he found them sound asleep. He said to Peter, “Can’t you stick it out with me a single hour? Stay alert; be in prayer so you don’t wander into temptation without even knowing you’re in danger. There is a part of you that is eager, ready for anything in God. But there’s another part that’s as lazy as an old dog sleeping by the fire.” ~ Matthew 26:40-41

(Originally published by Nattie on May 12, 2006)
rain has descended upon small town USA and has not left it for what seems like days. It doesn’t even feel like spring anymore because it isn’t a warm rain. It is a cold gusty rain. Much like Pooh’s blustery day rain. Brrr.
And I get to participate in a walk a thon tomorrow in it. Yippee. Color me excited. Thrilled. Tickled pink. Or blue. Because that is what I’ll be from the cold. Brrr.